tabenote is a notebook for choosing ingredients the way a seasoned chef does — by season and the balance of flavors. Underneath sits a classification of ingredients refined over centuries in East Asian kitchens, shown in shapes and words.
The iOS app is on its way to the App Store
Your ingredients become one shape
Pick ingredients, and the combination’s five flavors (sour, bitter, sweet, pungent, salty) and thermal nature are drawn as a single pentagon. What is abundant and what is missing — the shape tells you.
An index of 435 ingredients
Each ingredient lists its five flavors, nature, meridians, and category. Star the ones you like and keep notes in your own words.
The 24 solar terms, and five seasons
See which solar term today falls in, where you are among the five seasons (spring, summer, late summer, autumn, winter), and which flavors are favored right now.
AI menu ideas
From the ingredients you picked and the current season, AI suggests directions a dish could take.
The app never writes effects
What tabenote shows stops at factual data — five flavors, nature, meridians, category. It does not speak of curing or healing, and it handles no symptoms or conditions. No scores, either. The interpretation and the record are yours to write, in your own words. This app is no substitute for diagnosis or treatment by a physician.